...you'd think after this type of issue popping up so much, they'd -test- for save corruption in updates for games. It's like always on-DRM -- you always know to expect it to fail or fizzle out at some point.

Why is it that a game company can come out with an update and expect gamers to bow to their wishes when it doesn't work. Answer that?

Oh..... They fired the testing crew a few months before the update came out. They released the faulty game, and update, with bugs that their hired game testers "never seem to find". Then updated it with code that never seemed to get any amount of extensive testing.

I know, or at least I have a vague idea of how it works. Testers for a game make bottom of the barrel wages. Then when the game is done you're "laid off"; to find another game to test.That seems to be a given. I'm betting a lot of "testers" for a game are friends of people that work on development. If your, that friend of someone who doesn't have a major role in the development, are you going to tell your friend that it sucks balls? Your friend makes the character modals. What real role does he/she have in making major game/flaw changes?

Probably not, and nothing respectively, if anything of recent game releases is concerned.

I think that may have slightly something to do the housing and credit bubble that occurred a few years ago. Bankers and credit agents, surrounded by "teat" suckling yes men let housing loans go that were supposedly sure sales (no default). NOTHING IN THIS WORLD IS A SALE UNTIL THE LAST DOLLAR IS PAYED! Aside from that nonsense, the gaming community seems to be treated like that every day. A company can make a demo (we'll read advertisement; even though I've never considered a demo an advert-) and it may be great or terrible. It doesn't matter. As long as you employed "enough" game programmers/artists/testers your game will make bank. I have no idea how game companies, much less any business got this (newfangled entitlement) idea in their head, but they honestly need to check themselves before they wreck themselves. Unfortunately they'll wreck gaming for the rest of us as well.